Awhile back we bought a new rug for the living room. It was pretty costly but it looked great and it was blue which is my favorite color. Within a few hours of the new lay down, my cat decided to claim one corner as hew new scratching pad. She pretty much fucked the rug up by morning wreaking a small havoc on the threads, but not to the point where it was destroyed. We had an instead to go back to IKEA and buy a smaller round rug to put on top of the new $200 rug we just bought, hoping my cat was merely territorial and not destructive. Our plan worked and now a five dollar topical rug serves as her scratch pad instead of the expensive rug. I also find her laying on it regularly in a semi-circle. Tonight as I was just about to fall asleep but I rather spent some time playing with her. She loves the little round rug so much. And I thought to myself how simple the idea was to solve this little kitty problem and how much happier we all are for having these little disasters work out perfectly. I wish that every idea I have would manifest so quickly and with such grace as this small example. I wish that I knew exactly which strategies to play that will work the best in real time in every aspect of my life as quickly as my cat took to that rug. I firmly believe that the work I’m doing now, believe it or not I will eventually bear fruit I can live off of. But I know that it won’t come easy as driving to the store to buy some sort of remedy. A year ago I didn’t have a couch to sit on, or a refrigerator to keep my beer cold, and I was stuck on the floor of this house realizing that sometimes the simple things in life are the most forgettable. I’m valiant in my efforts to realize the future, but I’m amazed at how much I forget to appreciate the present. I should work on that.

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